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William Lawvere
Lawvere in Florence, 2003
Born
Francis William Lawvere
(1937-02-09)February 9, 1937
Muncie, Indiana, U.S.
Died
January 23, 2023(2023-01-23) (aged 85)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Alma mater
Columbia University
Known for
Contributions to topos theory and philosophy of mathematics
Lawvere theory
Lawvere's fixed-point theorem
Awards
"Premio Giulio Preti", awarded by the Regional Council of Tuscany (2010)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
SUNY-Buffalo
Doctoral advisor
Samuel Eilenberg
Francis William Lawvere (/lɔːˈvɪər/; February 9, 1937 – January 23, 2023) was an American mathematician known for his work in category theory, topos theory and the philosophy of mathematics.
Francis WilliamLawvere (/lɔːˈvɪər/; February 9, 1937 – January 23, 2023) was an American mathematician known for his work in category theory, topos theory...
In category theory, a Lawvere theory (named after American mathematician WilliamLawvere) is a category that can be considered a categorical counterpart...
Płonka, S. Świerczkowski, K. Urbanik, and others. Starting with WilliamLawvere's thesis in 1963, techniques from category theory have become important...
fundamental construction of enriched category theory formally introduced by WilliamLawvere in 1986. That is a duality between covariant and contravariant representable...
ordered by inclusion. F is the lower adjoint. A very general comment of WilliamLawvere is that syntax and semantics are adjoint: take A to be the set of all...
logic, one that is very general in applicability.: 314 Mathematician WilliamLawvere interpreted dialectics in the setting of categorical logic in terms...
ISBN 978-3-540-27949-5. Lawvere, F. William; Rosebrugh, Robert (2003). Sets for Mathematics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-01060-3. Lawvere, F. William; Schanuel...
Sets equipped with an extended pseudoquasimetric were studied by WilliamLawvere as "generalized metric spaces". From a categorical point of view, the...
in the category of sets. This observation is instrumental for F. WilliamLawvere's axiomatization of set theory, the Elementary Theory of the Category...
History of category theory Saunders Mac Lane Samuel Eilenberg Max Kelly WilliamLawvere André Joyal Mathematics portal Abstract nonsense Glossary of category...
(ordinary) Zariski-open sets. The current definition of topos goes back to WilliamLawvere and Myles Tierney. While the timing follows closely on from that described...
historian (b. 1928) January 23 George Crabtree, 78, physicist (b. 1944) WilliamLawvere, 85, mathematician (b. 1937) Victor Navasky, 90, journalist (The Nation...
monads (cf. the Kuratowski closure axioms) a very general comment of WilliamLawvere is that syntax and semantics are adjoint: take C to be the set of all...
Kuratowski Karol Borsuk Doctoral students Jonathan Beck David Buchsbaum Martin Golumbic Daniel Kan WilliamLawvere Ramaiyengar Sridharan Myles Tierney...
Set Valued Functors, was jointly supervised by Peter J. Freyd and WilliamLawvere. When she was offered a postdoctoral research position at McGill in...
Shige Toshi Kuroda Robert Phelan Langlands Richard Lashof Francis WilliamLawvere Peter David Lax Jerome Paul Levine B. M. Levitan Joram Lindenstrauss...
tangles and relations among them 1971 WilliamLawvere–Myles Tierney Lawvere–Tierney topology on a topos 1971 WilliamLawvere–Myles Tierney Topos theoretic forcing...
2003) February 5 – Stuart Damon, American actor (d. 2021) February 9 – WilliamLawvere, American mathematician (d. 2023) February 10 – Roberta Flack, African-American...
content of the enriched category axioms for categories enriched over 2. WilliamLawvere's generalized metric spaces, also known as pseudoquasimetric spaces...
involve a DC-3. Born: WilliamLawvere, American mathematician known for Lawvere's fixed-point theorem and for the category of Lawvere theory sets; in Muncie...